Gonna break the cycle here, sorry. I know pain. Pain is bruising your ribs at the end of March, taking a whole month off of riding, feeling recovered enough to ride, entering a 50 mile mtn bike race, feeling great, and then woohoo an unnoticed tendinitis on the upper knee cap decides to let itself be known!!! Yay, more time off the bike, more annoying pain and swelling!! Yay pain!!!

is it okay to chop in a dark, hot place, red around the edges, quiet but for the roaring of the blood in your ears, the distant pleading for mercy and blubbering like a schoolgirl who dropped her ice cream on the sidewalk, while curled fetal-like around that central nugget of pain?